Backend Software Engineer - US Remote

Backend Software Engineer (US Remote)

Join a high-ownership engineering culture building critical infrastructure for high-volume, real-time business operations.

Role Overview

You will design, build, and scale integration-heavy backend services that process large volumes of transactions and data. You’ll work closely with Product, Engineering, and Operations to deliver reliable, scalable systems.

What You’ll Do

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services using TypeScript and NestJS
• Architect and implement scalable APIs, integrations, and event-driven systems
• Build high-throughput workflows for processing large volumes of transactions and data
• Design data models and service architectures for complex distributed systems
• Implement reliable asynchronous processing (queues, workers, background jobs)
• Collaborate cross-functionally to translate business requirements into technical solutions
• Improve reliability, performance, and operational efficiency
• Implement observability best practices (logging, monitoring, metrics, tracing, alerting)
• Contribute to API design, documentation, and internal tooling
• Take ownership from design through deployment and ongoing optimization
• Use modern AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity and code quality

Requirements

• 4+ years of professional backend engineering experience
• Strong TypeScript and production experience with NestJS (or similar Node.js frameworks)
• Proven experience designing and building scalable APIs and backend services
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and asynchronous processing
• Experience integrating with third-party APIs, webhooks, and external platforms
• Solid system design skills for high-scale, complex architectures
• Experience with observability/monitoring and production troubleshooting
• Strong software engineering best practices (testing, maintainability)
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work independently in a remote environment

Nice to Have

• Queue management/background job tools such as BullMQ (or similar)
• Familiarity with Next.js or modern frontend frameworks
• Experience building high-volume transactional or integration-heavy systems
• Exposure to cloud infrastructure and DevOps best practices
• Startup/high-growth environment experience
• Knowledge of microservices and platform engineering concepts
• Experience using AI-powered development tools in the engineering workflow